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social workers: how much of your week goes to admin/paperwork instead of the actual work, and what's the worst of it?
not a social worker, i come from software. i keep reading that a huge chunk of the job is documentation and fighting systems rather than helping people, and i want to understand that properly from people who actually live it.
what's the paperwork or system stuff that takes the most time away from the part of the job that matters? duplicate data entry across systems, case notes, reporting, portals that don't talk to each other, whatever it is.
genuinely just trying to learn, not selling anything. the blunter the better.
u/Any_Appointment_5030 — 13 days ago
brokers and carriers: what's the most soul crushing repetitive task in a normal week?
outsider trying to understand freight properly, not the linkedin highlight reel version. from the outside a lot of it looks like phone calls, chasing check calls, getting ghosted on payments, re-entering the same load info into 4 different portals, double brokering drama.
what's the part that makes you want to throw your laptop that has nothing to do with the market being good or bad? the boring operational stuff that's just annoying and never seems to get better. curious how much of what i listed is real vs me having no idea.
u/Any_Appointment_5030 — 14 days ago